E30 Zone

just been thinking, i've been on here for about a year and a half and havent seen any posts about it. Is there any plans for a Birthday meet??

Thats funny my wife asked me yesterday how long the Zone has been going.

the earlist post i can find, from the old zone, is 04/06/2003

4th June it is then... Where????

Read all about the start here..

http://forum.bmwcarmagazine.com/viewtop ... ht=e30zone

And so the Zone was born.......

And look what its become! just wanna say a big thanks to the guys who started and run the zone. probaly wouldn't be doing half the things i am now if i didn't have the zone.

Am sure lots of people have nearly scraped or sold there cars after not being able to fix them or find the problem. it realy is something when you can be working on your car run in to a problem, post a question and then be back on with the job after a cup of tea

well done

So the Zone was offically born on Mon Mar 24, 2003 4:28 pm....

Christ that seems like such a long time ago! I was playing with silly japanese vehicles then too.

Love the question "have you got broadband" something 95% of us take for granted now.



I think a yearly zone meet would be a good idea.

are the founders of the original zone still around then?i seem to remember a little flack about a year ago with an original founder called lizzie ? i think

The name JonB sounds firmiluar aswell....

Ridi is Steve, main man behind the zone, and still is, Ant is still the same Ant, and dlatch (Duncan) has funnily enough just signed back on the zone after a while away playing with Fords, only last week.

I'm still here too

Who are you?.

I'm not on that thread but was talking with steve on email at the time. There are a few other zone threads too on that forum if I remember correctly. I'm E30Adam on there too and still use it occasionally although barely any E30 posts nowadays. It makes me realise how far the zone's come over the last almost 4 years. I'm very proud to be a part of it.

Now now Adam, Wipe away those tears and stop getting all nostalgic.

Adam, has your young lady Becky still got her msport?.

d6dph wrote:Now now Adam, Wipe away those tears and stop getting all nostalgic.

Funilly enough, this was my original sig pic. Made it shortly after purchasing my sport which I've just checked was on 20th May 2003. That's the longest I've ever kept a car!

And I hope you're planning on keeping it, Looks a peach dude.

So who's up for an Ace cafe day this year (as its just turned 2007 )

d6dph wrote: So who's up for an Ace cafe day this year (as its just turned 2007 )

so long as its organised differently to last year when not many turned up!...

DaveD wrote:

d6dph wrote: So who's up for an Ace cafe day this year (as its just turned 2007 )

so long as its organised differently to last year when not many turned up!...

it was organised fine, zoners just tend not to show up once the names have been added to the list

so no list and everyone will show eh!

DaveD wrote:so no list and everyone will show eh!

you know what i mean

yeh i know what you mean but i thought it was well organised and well publicised last year and a lot of people showed over the day but it seemed that a lot of the locals (Londoners) who had put their names down had conveniently something else to do or forgotten!,......or hadn't noticed it ( it was publicised for MONTHS)

...maybe it would be better as a half day event say from 3pm

kam-325i wrote:So the Zone was offically born on Mon Mar 24, 2003 4:28 pm....

Really? I joined in April 2003 and I remember a few zoners already had post counts of a few thousand.

edit: scrub that, i joined april 2004!

For that meet at Ace, it just happened to be a nice day in the summer, and quite a few people, who had put their names down, ended up elsewhere, to enjoy the weather, like most of rest of the country did.

People either decided, or had to give in to pressure/requests from family/friends, or due to work commitments.

Considering the fact that the monthly Ace Cafe meet is the most regular meet that we, the Zoners have, it was disappointing and annoying, but the organisers could do nothing about it.

For the Ace meet, many of us never put our names down, but we are there, pretty much every month, as it is a gathering more than anything else for most of the regulars like Dips, Malcolm, Zaust, Gouki, etc. etc.

At the end of the day, it's down to the individual to make the effort.

Hopefully we will have a better turnout this time.

All suggestions/advice would be good and help to make it a better event I guess.

Organisers, take note ? Mal ? Iain ? Dips ?

What about an autojumble? collection for charity?